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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
Viewing Records: 5,101 to 5,200 of 6,111
| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1870-11-30 | Blue Mills | John Barron of Blue Mills started construction of a flume to extend from his mill pond to the bank of the river. Logs are to be raised from river to flume by a car. This will give Blue Mills safest log resevoir on river and large enough to hold two seasons sawing. |
| 1870-11-30 | Newspapers--Free Press | Free press now conducted by Mr. Brackett on west side. News edited by WF Bailey. |
| 1870-11-30 | Odds and Ends | EC Co. received shipment of goods direct from England. Came up Mississippi to Reeds then on-board the "Minnetta." Charges $1.50 CTW. |
| 1870-11-30 | Chapman and Thorp - Eau Claire Lumber Company | New Eau Claire Lumber Company mill progressing well; has five wheels. Frank McDonough is superintendent. |
| 1870-11-30 | West Wisconsin Railroad | West Wisconsin Railroad now has 4 elegant passenger coaches. The company will make up 2 trains which will run alternately from Tomah to Menomonie the present terminus. |
| 1870-11-30 | Land Office | Office moved from Court House to new building on Pearl St. opposite Music Hall block. |
| 1870-11-30 | Lumbering | Parker and Wilcox shingle mill on lake turning out 40,000 shingles per day. Closed last season on account of being unable to secure a stock of bolts. |
| 1870-11-30 | Lumbering | Seven hundred men employed by w.s. mills, wages range from $22-$45 a month for labor, $2-$5 per day for oilers, sawyers, machinists and mill wrights. |
| 1870-11-30 | Lumbering | Jean Burnette built first mill on Chippewa where Union Lumber Co. is now, in 1832. |
| 1870-12-08 | Presbyterian Church | Fire in aisle due to mismanagement of furnace. |
| 1870-12-08 | Chippewa Valley Railroad | Chippewa Valley Railroad organized. |
| 1870-12-08 | Lumbering | Last winter 140,000' cut on Chippewa River. Fifteen million on Yellow River, 40,000,000 on Eau Claire. |
| 1870-11-18 | Poor Farm | Poor Farm is two miles east of city. |
| 1870-11-17 | Fire Department | West EC purchased a steam fire engine $7,000. |
| 1870-10-31 | West Side Schools | New school cost $25,000, will hold 800 pupils. On highest ground in town, built in shape of cross. |
| 1870-10-20 | Street Improvements | Road leading out of town from Washington St. up long plank hill in bad condition. |
| 1870-10-20 | West Wisconsin Railroad | Railroad bridge across Chippewa completed. 82' above high water mark. |
| 1870-10-06 | Bridges - Chippewa River | Fire broke out in photographic gallery near bridge & caught fire. Line of men formed to river & bridge saved. |
| 1870-10-06 | Williams House, also Windsor House | Fire broke out in photographic gallery near bridge & bridge caught fire. For a time the new Williams House was in danger. |
| 1870-10-06 | Fires | Fire in photographic gallery near bridge which also caught fire. Line of men formed to river and bridge saved. Buildings along block to River St. destroyed. For a time William's House in danger. Damage $12,000. |
| 1870-10-06 | West Wisconsin Railroad | New hotel & eating house near depot open. Mr. Humbird, proprietor of railroad makes his headquarters in EC & occupies suite in new hotel. |
| 1870-10-06 | Jail | Old wooden building 24'x36' built 11 years ago. Two stories, 2 cells, 7'x11' of wood. One half of building occupied by Mark Sherman and family, deputy sheriff. Committe recommends building larger, safer jail. |
| 1870-09-01 | Music Hall | About complete. Corner store rented to S. Marston for Post Office & bookstore. Andrew Jackson to occupy part of same room for fancy jewelry, rents $750 per month. Basement used by AA Brooks & Colonel as meat market, rents for $350 per year. Office rooms fronting on Kelsey at rear of Truax store used by Putnam & Woodward as banking house. 2nd floor occupied by LM Vilas, Bartlett, Cousins, Angel & Ellis & registers office. |
| 1870-09-01 | Williams House, also Windsor House | Ready to open soon. Has 52 sleeping rooms all with spring mattresses, dining room seats 140. |
| 1870-09-01 | Eau Claire County | Census shows 10,862 in county. |
| 1870-09-01 | Telegraph | Telegraph will arrive in EC by Saturday night. |
| 1870-09-01 | Frank Forest | Arrived at levee owned by Captain Ed Campbell, run by Captain Chet Hall. Lenght 115' beam 24'. Excursion to St. Paul to last 3 days & visit Lake Como, Fort Snelling, Minnehaha & St. Anthony Falls. |
| 1870-09-01 | Lumbering | On August 22 heavy rains, rivers rose 15' at EC. Millions of logs lost up river. |
| 1870-08-22 | Weather | Rained harder than since '39. River rose 15' at EC. Millions of logs lost. |
| 1870-08-18 | Williams House, also Windsor House | New hotel on River St. to be 48 feet by 125 feet by GW Williams & Co. Three stories high, will be completed by July. Grand promenade balconies extend around three sides almost reaching river. |
| 1870-08-18 | West Wisconsin Railroad | 10,000 people present. CF sent procession of 75 teams headed by brass band. Governor Fairchild & lady arrived day before & stayed at J. C. Callahans. 700 fed at once at dinner & tables cleared & refilled four times making total fed 2800. Train left at 6 p.m. amid cheers & cannon salutes. |
| 1870-08-11 | West Wisconsin Railroad | First train will arrive at depot at 10:30 a.m. & will be announced by cannon fire, bells ringing, a carriage procession to grounds in park on west side. Alex Meggett will make welcoming address. Over 1000 invitations sent. Dinner served by the ladies. |
| 1870-08-04 | Race Track | Race track nearly finished. |
| 1870-06-23 | Bridges - Chippewa River | Shawtown bridge being repaired at last. |
| 1870-06-23 | Weather | Drought this summer. |
| 1870-06-23 | Northside Catholic Church | Cornerstone for new Catholic church on northside hill laid. Speeches in French, German & English. |
| 1870-06-23 | Rumsey Line (Steamboats) | Retired from river & gone to Lake St. Croix & Pepin. |
| 1870-06-23 | Silas Wright | Capsized in 9' water on Lake Pepin during storm. Captain Herrick now in charge. |
| 1870-06-23 | The Chippewa | Raised and in dry dock. |
| 1870-06-23 | West Wisconsin Railroad | Spikes which delayed laying railroad from Augusta arrived & work being speeded. |
| 1870-06-23 | Jail | Jail spoken of as "white house on the hill." |
| 1870-06-17 | Weather | River flooded to 23'. |
| 1870-06-02 | City Growth | There are 17 dry goods, 11 groceries (all listed), six hardware, two clothing & notions, nine fancy articles, four drug stores, 13 hotels & boarding houses, one bank, five insurance agencies, four furniture, book binder, two flour & feed stores, 14 lawyers, seven doctors, three dentists, four breweriers, eight meat markets, three photographers, three blacksmiths, three bakery & confections, one bookstore, three sash & planing mills, one bridge builder & contractor, four jewelers, five paint shops, five barber shops, four commission agents, six livery stables, one tobacco & liquor store, three agricultural houses, two foundaries. One high school under the management of the Methodist Soc., two graded schools with about 500 scholars each. Catholic school nearly ready. 10 churches. |
| 1870-06-02 | Rumsey Line (Steamboats) | Matt Harris & Daniel Hylman employed by Rumsey line for several years. |
| 1870-06-02 | Moniter | Now plys between Durand & Reed's Landing, seldom comes to EC. |
| 1870-06-02 | Chapman and Thorp - Eau Claire Lumber Company | Eau Claire Lumber Company is strongest company in northwest except Knapp, Stout. (describes company). |
| 1870-06-02 | The Chippewa | Hugh McMaster now Captain of Chippewa of Rumsey Line. |
| 1870-06-02 | Northwest Lumber Corporation | Has capacity of six million feet. |
| 1870-06-02 | Lumbering | Above town are Nelson, Hunter and Co., Burdett, Wheaton and Farwell. Including these there are twenty mills in EC employing 1,200 men. |
| 1870-06-01 | Bridges - Chippewa River | Kutzner now has exclusive charge of toll gate. Lamphere having retired. |
| 1870-06-01 | Music Hall | L. Slingluff will move into Thorp & Truax building. |
| 1870-05-31 | Jeannette Roberts | Laid up at Durand. Her machinery being transferred to new boat, the Frank Forest. |
| 1870-05-31 | The Chippewa | Sank in 9' water at 9 miles slough, not much freight on board. |
| 1870-05-31 | West Side Schools | New school in 6th Ward ready. |
| 1870-05-19 | City Growth | Hotels 10 in number but accommodations poor quality & insufficient. Among best are EC House, Central House, Niagara & Monongahal Houses. 200 brick & stone masons, plasterers & carpenters busy erecting business places on our principle streets. |
| 1870-05-19 | Daniel Shaw and Company | Shaw and Bullen have seventy-five mill hands. This company own 30,000 acres of pine land and almost the whole of west EC beyond race. |
| 1870-05-18 | Williams House, also Windsor House | Livery barn of GW Williams & Co. being raised & foundation laid to convert it to hotel. |
| 1870-04-30 | Dole, Ingram and Kennedy | Store and office caught fire from burning edgings and destroyed. Logs still jammed in Eau Claire River. Estimated up to sixty million feet. (Southwest corner of 4th and Water Streets.) |
| 1870-04-30 | Dole, Ingram and Kennedy | Have three mills. Two mills employ 125 hands besides twenty-five hands in Miss. and fifty at another mill in Oak Grove. |
| 1870-04-30 | Daniel Shaw and Company | Shaw's Foundry employs four skilled laborers. |
| 1870-04-30 | Lumbering | Logs still in jam on Chippewa River. Estimates up to sixty million feet. |
| 1870-04-28 | Masonic Lodge | New building going up, 3rd floor for Masons. |
| 1870-04-28 | Stages | This week coaches replace open wagons that have been running on the Eastern Stage Line. |
| 1870-04-28 | Dole, Ingram and Kennedy | Fire broke out in the yard. Many fire extinguishers, but no one knew how to use them. |
| 1870-04-28 | Lumbering | Chippewa Lumber Co. mill on Half Moon burned to ground. Mill valued at $12,000, no insured. |
| 1870-04-28 | Lumbering | Chippewa Lumber Co. mill on Half Moon burned to ground, valued at $12,000 and not insured. On same night large flouring mill on Elk Creek belonging to H Sommermeyer and Brothers also burned. |
| 1870-04-28 | Lumbering | Water on Chippewa falling and jam at Union Lumber Co. mills above CF daily becoming more compact and difficult. |
| 1870-04-14 | Lumbering | Log drive on Eau Claire River success, but no on Chippewa. Logs broke with rush carrying away new pier at Rose's Mill, jamming door of Runsey's warehouse and taking out dead cows and horses accumulating on west bank of Chippewa just above Niagara House. |
| 1870-04-01 | Bridges - Chippewa River | Freshet has so much shaken piers of Shawtown bridge that antiquated structure hangs down in the middle. |
| 1870-03-31 | Chapman and Thorp - Eau Claire Lumber Company | Medrury employee of Eau Claire Lumber Company gives items concerning logging on Eau Claire River. |
| 1870-03-31 | North Side Schools | School #1 has 67 pupils, HC Leland, principal. |
| 1870-03-31 | North Side Schools | First Ward to erect first class school opposite Scandinavian church. |
| 1870-03-31 | West Wisconsin Railroad | Men working on grading RR tracks between Augusta & EC quit. Demanding raise from $1.50 to $1.75 per day. Mr. Humbird is contractor. Depot & eating place being built by RR on north side. |
| 1870-03-31 | Lumbering | Many unemployed because mills have not started up. Logs jammed up river and not coming down. |
| 1870-03-22 | Idell Prindle | Former Chippewa Valley packet burned at levee in Winona. |
| 1870-03-21 | Dole, Ingram and Kennedy | Pushing work on new mill at head of Dells and at foot of Big Eddy. Sawing capacity of mill will be 10,000,000 feet per season. |
| 1870-02-28 | Fire Department | Used to carry fire equipment on backs. |
| 1870-02-01 | Johnson's Hall | Deyerman built new hall on site of Johnson's Hall $5,500 to be bricked over. (was left side of old Kepler building. Principal gathering place for West EC. Cousin's scrapbook has good history. |
| 1870-02-01 | Williams Block | Moved to upper rooms in William's Block, southeast corner Barstow & Gibson. |
| 1870-01-31 | West Wisconsin Railroad | Piers from new RR bridge across Chippewa laid. Piers completed & work on bridge suspended until fall. Tracks now to Fall Creek. |
| 1870-01-27 | Fires | Fire in J.P. Nelson's barn. Little wind and snow on roofs made fire burn slowly. Businesses destroyed: Hantzsch's distillery, Allen and Harris furniture, Foster and Jones grocery, Buck and Anderson hardware, Ed. Munden grocery, John Mae jewelry, M.L. Bowler building. |
| 1870-01-06 | West Wisconsin Railroad | Railroad arrived at Augusta. |
| 1870-01-01 | Amusements | Skating rink on west side of lake |
| 1870-01-01 | Amusements | By order of County Board, Court House square being cleaned up, rink torn down. |
| 1870-01-01 | Bridges - Chippewa River | Toll amounts to $7,744.25 for nine months. |
| 1870-01-01 | Fourth of July Celebrations. | Celebration on west side. |
| 1870-01-01 | Clark & Ingram Bank | Bank was on southwest corner Barstow & Grand where Walgreen's Drugstore is now. Lot 1 Block 3 owned in 1870 by Clark & Spafford who bought it from Chauncy Chandler. EC National Bank bought it from Clark heirs 1902 other half of lot Spafford guardians sell to Rust & Owne whose heirs sell to bank in 1911 |
| 1870-01-01 | EC House | William Newton building large brick building for hotel. |
| 1870-01-01 | Monongahala House | CL Haddon sold to JD Hadley of Niagara House. |
| 1870-01-01 | Music Hall | Third floor to be called Thorp Hall & will seat 1500. |
| 1870-01-01 | Music Hall | Opera Hall to be opened. Ole Bull present. |
| 1870-01-01 | Niagara House | GC Buffington sold to JD Hadley. |
| 1870-01-01 | Post Office | Post Office to be moved to corner building of Thorp & Truax building. |
| 1869-11-30 | Jeannette Roberts | Now plying between Reeds & EC. Chet Hall, Captain. |
| 1869-11-30 | Ida Campbell | Carries passengers almost exclusively, Captain Lou Fulton. June 2, 1870 of Diamond Jo Line. Matt Harris & Daniel Hylman now on Ida. James Bell is Captain. |
| 1869-11-30 | Newspapers--Free Press | Free Press moved from over Jackson Brothers opposite steamboat landing to upper rooms in William's Block on the corner of Gibson & Barstow Sts. |
| 1869-11-30 | Chapman and Thorp - Eau Claire Lumber Company | Eau Claire Lumber Company started blacksmith shop of stone at northern end of Eau Claire River bridge thirty feet by seventy feet. |
| 1869-11-30 | East Side Schools | Scholars enrolled in Howland's school (lists #s). |
| 1869-11-30 | West Side Schools | Old school sold at auction for $200 to be converted into workshop. |
| 1869-10-28 | West Wisconsin Railroad | Cars now come as close as Humbird. |